On selecting a constituent part of MU the "Loan information " page will be displayed with information relevant to the selected constituent part. The "Loan information " page is not available for non-activated items.

Loan information

User's Registration and Registration Fee

Registration of internal users (students and MU employees) is free of charge. Registration fee for external users is unified within the whole university. For external users libraries also offer so called registration-free mode; user is not registered and doesn't pay any fee, but is allowed to use material only in study room. User's registration is simplified; after filling in one form in the first visited central faculty library user has access to the services of the whole university libraries' system.

Equal Access to the Library Services

MU Library Regulations specifies 5 categories of internal users (Student, PhD. Student, Teacher, Employee and Specific) and one category of external users (Public). Each of the categories has equal access to library material i.e. library provides equal services for all users (from home faculty or registered in different faculty within MU). Services for each of the specified categories varies - e.g. internal and external users can have different loan terms or differences occur also within two categories of internal users.

Loan Parameters (loan term, number of documents on loan, overdue fees etc.) are set up in loan matrix, that combines users' categories with documents' categories. This set up is unified within the whole MU.

Loan Terms are as follows:

Short-term Loan

Standard Loan

Term Loan

Long-term Loan

Student

week

month

term

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PhD. Student

week

month

term

yes

Teacher

week

month

month

yes

Employee

week

month

month

yes

Specific

month

2 months

term

yes

Public*

week

month

month

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(*) Only when the particular library provides services for Public users

Each category of users has limited number of loans in particular library (Long-term loans are excluded):

30

Student, PhD. Student

50

Teacher, Employee, Specific

10

Public (when services provided)

Overdue Fees

MU Library Regulation effective since October 1st, 2005 introduces integral table of charges for overdue material valid for all categories of users. Amount is calculated according to category of document on loan and for each library item separately.

Present +

10 Kč per hour

Short-term loan

10 Kč per day

Standard loan

5 Kč per day

Term loan

5 Kč per day

Overdue fees are not calculated for days when library is closed. Long-term loans are excludes from fees.

Masaryk University Loan Services

Implementation of new library information system and unification of library environment within the whole university significantly improved convenience of services to users. That includes: